Essentials of D-phase to secure the competitive advantage through Six Sigma

International Journal of Business Excellence

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 35-51

  Singh, Bikram Jit ^a   Khanduja, Dinesh ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Casting defects; Cost of poor quality matrix; Cpk; Critical to quality factors; CTQ; D phase; Define phase; DMAIC; Gantt charts; Pareto analysis; Project charter; SIPOC; Supplier input process output customer diagrams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857309000     PISSN: 17560047     EISSN: 17560055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2012.044572     Document Type: Article

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